Dictionaries

Gary Herron gherron at islandtraining.com
Wed Oct 18 11:35:43 EDT 2006


Lad wrote:
> How can I add two dictionaries into one?
> E.g.
> a={'a:1}
> b={'b':2}
>
> I need
>
> the result {'a':1,'b':2}.
>
> Is it possible?
>
> Thank you
> L.
>
>   
Yes, use update.  Beware that this modifies a dictionary in place rather
than returning a new dictionary.

>>> a={'a':1}
>>> b={'b':2}
>>> a.update(b)
>>> a
{'a': 1, 'b': 2}

Gary Herron





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